Indeed, Miss Janet, good as you are, you could not stand it at uncle's.

Ten miles from a neighbor--just consider it! Uncle disapproves of campmeetings and barbecues; and aunt is sewing from morning till night; while I am required to read the Spectator aloud.

I have a mortal grudge against Addison." "But, my dear," said Miss Janet, "you must remember you are to return to your uncle's, and you must not learn to love the great world too much." "Perhaps," said Mr.Barbour, who was much depressed at the approaching parting, "Miss Ellen may not mean to return to her uncle's.

A young lady with good looks, and a heavy purse, will be found out in Washington.

She will just suit a great many there--clerks with small salaries, army and navy men with expensive habits; and foreign attaches, who, being nothing in their own country, turn our young ladies' heads when they come here." "So you think I am destined for no other fate than to pay a fortune-hunter's debts.